The feebly inhibited : nomadism, or the wandering impulse, with special reference to heredity inheritance of temperament / by Charles B. Davenport.

  • Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944.
Date:
1915
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Credit: The feebly inhibited : nomadism, or the wandering impulse, with special reference to heredity inheritance of temperament / by Charles B. Davenport. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. Nomadism, or the Wandering Impulse, with Special Reference TO Heredity. PACK I. Scope of the subject-matter and nomenclature 7 II. Classification of nomadism III. The wandering instinct 9 1. The wandering instinct in anthropoid apes 9 2. The wandering instinct among primitive peoples lo 3. The wandering instinct in children 12 4. Wandering in adolescents 12 IV. The family history of nomads: Importance, sources, and classification 12 V. Tables showing distribution of the nomadic tendency in the 100 family histories (tables I to 8) i4 VT. Inheritance of the nomadic tendency 20 1. Hypothesis 20 2. Test of the hypothesis (table 9) 21 VII. Nomadic occupations 24 VIII. Association of the nomadic impulse with psychoses 24 IX. Summary 26 X. Literature cited 26 Appendix—Abstracts of too family histories of nomads 27 Inheritance of Temperament with Special Reference to Twins and Suicides. I. Introduction 71 II. Definition 71 1. The hyperkinetic state 71 2. The hypokinetic (depressed) state 73 3. The alternation of hyperkinesis and hypokinesis 73 4. “Normal” mood 74 5. General facts of heredity 75 III. Hypothesis as to heredity 75 IV. Test of the hypothesis 75 1. Method 75 2. Results 81 3. Discussion of table C; the apparently unconfonnable cases 88 4. The behavior of the choleric-cheerful 93 5. Conclusion 94 V. Discussion of earlier studies on heredity of temperament 95 VI. Evidence for inheritance of temperament drawn from studies of identical twins. 100 VII. Selection of temperaments in marriage 106 VIII. Suicide in relation to temperament 108 1. Introduction 108 2. Suicides in hyperkinetics 109 3. Suicides in hypokinetics 113 4. The inheritance of these two types of suicides 114 IX. The specificity of the suicidal impulse u6 X. Remarks on the categories of functional insanity 118 XI. The hyperkinetics and the hypokinetics in the po|)ulation—the romantic and the classic types iiy XH. Summary 121 XHI. Literature cited 123